Her Name is Spirit Love
Remember Who You Are.
For the past 5 years, I have been bringing the gift of Sound Healing to a private center where people are recovering from addiction. Bringing the peace and balance that Sound Healing may bring to those with PTSD and a variety of challenges is very inspiring to me.
When introducing one of my particular instruments, I say,
“This is a Native American Buffalo drum made in ceremony. Her name is Spirit Love. Most of the tones and songs and sounds you will embody are original pieces. However, when I play the Buffalo Drum, I sing Native American songs and I like to honor that.”
Recently, after Spirit Love’s intro, one of my clients asked, “What ceremony?”
I’d never been asked that before and it took me by surprise. I wasn’t quite sure how to respond.
So I took a deep breath, dropped into my heart and answered, “Iroquois, although I am not sure this is correct. The skins had been prayed upon, prepared in ceremony by the woman with whom I had gathered for a year to drum, learn, and remember Shamanic tribal practices.”
After I closed the sound healing circle by calling out the directions, the same gentleman who had asked the question stayed behind to share his experience with me.
He is Native American from a Northern tribe and had been taught from the age of five by his grandmother to drum and dance and sing in the traditions of his people. He thanked me for honoring the tradition. He said his Spirit Guide came to him during the sound healing session for the first time in a very long time telling him, “Remember who you are.”
Apparently, this man had limited use of his legs since his return from a military tour.
“I just stopped drumming, singing and dancing,” he said. “I’ve never even shared my lineage with my children.”
He thanked me again, saying he was inspired to follow his Spirit Guide and share his ancestral lineage with his children.
We laughed together when he said that at one point the drum tone was a bit flat and complimented me on how I used my voice to balance it out. He recommended I take my drum out in the warmth of the sun to heal. I thanked him for his kind words and his story.
Spirit Love was made in the ancient way with a back wrapped fibonacci spiral which is more difficult to craft. Also, I had chosen to place the smooth drum skin on the inside. Most often the smooth skin is on the outside or exterior of the drum and the interior strings are wrapped in a cross formation. He shared some wisdom of what these inspired choices meant and I truly appreciated his wisdom and our time together.
The feather that hangs from my drum was given to me by a dear friend, a Native American from Canada, who was taken from his birth family as a newborn, a part of the “Scoop Project”, and adopted by a family outside of the area. He didn’t get to meet his birth mother, father, or family, who had thought he was dead, until his thirties. His father was a Medicine Man. Years ago, at this same recovery center, his father came to me while I was drumming with a message for his son and a message for me to continue to drum the ancient songs of his people.
So what does this have to do with Sound Healing?
Each of us has a unique inner voice. We carry the wisdom of our ancestors, known and unknown, embodied in our cells.
Perhaps a Sound Healing journey can open up a hidden place within or expand a memory to facilitate healing, to ignite a joy and a playfulness you may not have experienced since you were a child. It would be my honor to be your guide with my voice, my open heart, my instruments, and my love on this awakened journey home.
And of course, please always remember, how much I love you.
Be in Bliss.
Love, Pamela
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